Carlos Alcaraz in 2026: Every Result So Far, His Ranking and the Fall Schedule
- 🔑 As of Saturday, October 3, 2026, Carlos Alcaraz is ranked No. 3 on the ATP list of September 28, with 5,060 points, behind Jannik Sinner (11,000) and Alexander Zverev (9,630). He has won two titles this year: the Australian Open, his seventh Grand Slam, and the Qatar Open in Doha.
- The ATP’s win/loss index had Alcaraz at 28-4 for 2026 after his October 1 opener in Tokyo. Adding Saturday’s win over Matteo Arnaldi, our own count is 29-4. His four losses came against Daniil Medvedev, Sebastian Korda, Jannik Sinner and Ben Shelton, and Laver Cup matches are not counted.
- A right wrist injury, which Sports Illustrated reported as tenosynovitis, ended his Barcelona Open run on April 15, and he missed Roland-Garros and Wimbledon. His comeback event, the US Open, ended in a five-set quarterfinal loss to Ben Shelton at 3:33 a.m. ET on September 9, the latest finish in tournament history.
- His Japan Open quarterfinal against Denis Shapovalov is scheduled for Sunday, October 4, on Colosseum Court in Tokyo, not before 1:00 p.m. local time, which is midnight Eastern as Saturday night turns to Sunday. It has not been played, and this page makes no prediction. Semifinals are October 5; the final is October 6.
- After Tokyo, the published calendar runs through the Shanghai Masters (October 7-18, where he is entered), the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Riyadh (October 21-24), the Paris Masters (November 2-8) and the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin (November 15-22). No odds or win probabilities are used on this page.
As of Saturday, October 3, 2026, Carlos Alcaraz is ranked No. 3 on the ATP list, has won two titles this season and is into the quarterfinals of the Japan Open in Tokyo, where he is scheduled to play Denis Shapovalov on Sunday, October 4. He began the year at No. 1, completed a career Grand Slam in Melbourne, then missed more than four months with a wrist injury. This page is pinned to Saturday, October 3, before that quarterfinal, so it reports no result or preview for it.
Where does Carlos Alcaraz rank in 2026?
Alcaraz is No. 3 in the ATP singles rankings with 5,060 points, according to the list dated September 28, 2026. Jannik Sinner is No. 1 with 11,000 points and Alexander Zverev is No. 2 with 9,630. Ben Shelton is No. 4 with 4,680. Alcaraz began the year at No. 1 and lost the top spot when Sinner beat him in the Monte-Carlo final on April 12, according to the ATP’s own coverage. The ATP updates its rankings on Mondays, so check its list for anything newer than September 28. We left out the separate Race to Turin table because it changes after every match.
Who does Alcaraz play next at the Japan Open?
Alcaraz is scheduled to play Denis Shapovalov in the Japan Open quarterfinals on Sunday, October 4, 2026, on Colosseum Court at Tokyo’s Ariake Coliseum, not before 1:00 p.m. local time, according to the ATP’s order of play. “Not before” means the start depends on the match ahead of it. In US terms, 1:00 p.m. in Tokyo is 12:00 a.m. Eastern on Sunday (9:00 p.m. Saturday Pacific), because Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of the East Coast until US clocks change on November 1. The match has not been played. The semifinals are Monday, October 5, and the final is Tuesday, October 6, by Tokyo dates.
Alcaraz is the top seed and defending champion at this ATP 500 event, which runs September 30 to October 6. He beat Alex Michelsen in three sets on Thursday, October 1, dropping serve five times, then beat Matteo Arnaldi 7-6, 6-1 on Saturday, October 3, saving four set points in the first-set tiebreak. Counting last year’s title run, he is 7-0 in Tokyo.
What has Alcaraz won in 2026?
Alcaraz has won two titles in 2026: the Australian Open in February and the Qatar Open in Doha. He beat Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in the Australian Open final on February 1, his seventh Grand Slam title and the one that completed a career Grand Slam. He then pulled out of Rotterdam, with the tournament citing exhaustion, and beat Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-1 in 50 minutes in the Doha final.
What are Alcaraz’s results event by event?
Alcaraz has not won a title since Doha: he lost a semifinal, a third-round match and a final in March and April, then withdrew from Barcelona with an injury. His loss to Daniil Medvedev at Indian Wells ended an unbeaten start to the year. We list rounds and opponents, not scores, for the spring events.
| Event | Result | Against |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | Won title | Djokovic |
| Rotterdam | Withdrew | - |
| Doha | Won title | Fils |
| Indian Wells | Lost SF | Medvedev |
| Miami | Lost 3R | Korda |
| Monte-Carlo | Lost final | Sinner |
| Barcelona | Withdrew | - |
| US Open | Lost QF | Shelton |
| Tokyo | In progress | Shapovalov (QF) |
Why did Alcaraz miss Roland-Garros and Wimbledon?
A right wrist injury, which Sports Illustrated reported as tenosynovitis, forced Alcaraz out of the Barcelona Open on April 15 and kept him out of tournaments until the US Open. He then withdrew from Roland-Garros, Queen’s and Wimbledon and, later, Cincinnati, according to reports at the time. National outlets described the US Open as his first tournament back after roughly four months. We have not speculated about the injury’s cause or what it means going forward.
What happened to Alcaraz at the US Open?
Alcaraz, the defending champion, reached the quarterfinals in his first tournament back and then lost a five-set match that Ben Shelton won 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(10-7). It lasted 4 hours, 28 minutes and ended at 3:33 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, September 9, the latest finish in US Open history. The previous latest was Alcaraz’s own 2022 win over Sinner, which ended at 2:50 a.m. Zverev went on to win the title, beating Shelton in the final on September 13.
Did the Laver Cup count toward his 2026 record?
No. The Laver Cup is an exhibition team event, so its matches sit outside his ATP win-loss record. Team Europe beat Team World 13-5 at The O2 in London from September 25 to 27. Alcaraz beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 4-6, [13-11] on Saturday, September 26, saving two match points in the deciding match tiebreak.
What is Alcaraz’s 2026 match record?
Alcaraz is 29-4 in 2026 by our count, after the ATP’s win/loss index had him at 28-4 following his October 1 win in Tokyo. Saturday’s win over Arnaldi makes 29. That figure is our own addition rather than a number read from the ATP, so check the ATP’s player page for the official count. His four losses came against Medvedev, Sebastian Korda, Sinner and Shelton.
What is on Alcaraz’s schedule after Tokyo?
After Tokyo, the published calendar runs through the Shanghai Masters (October 7-18), the Six Kings Slam exhibition (October 21-24), the Paris Masters (November 2-8) and the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin (November 15-22).
| Event | Dates | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Masters | Oct 7-18 | Entered |
| Six Kings Slam | Oct 21-24 | Exhibition |
| Paris Masters | Nov 2-8 | Calendar date |
| ATP Finals | Nov 15-22 | Calendar date |
Alcaraz is on the ATP’s Shanghai entry list, published September 10, though an entry is not a guarantee he plays. The Six Kings Slam is a non-ATP exhibition in Riyadh, and six players, including Alcaraz, were announced for it in July. We list Paris and Turin as calendar dates only, since we have not confirmed his entries, and we make no projection about his ranking, Finals qualification or results.
What happens to this page after Sunday’s quarterfinal?
This tracker is pinned to Saturday, October 3, 2026, and the Tokyo quarterfinal will change its next-match section, his record and possibly his ranking. We will update it once the result is official, and again after the semifinal and final. For how the team event he played in September works, see our Laver Cup 2026 explainer .
How we verified this
Rankings. The ATP’s date-stamped singles list for September 28, 2026 shows Alcaraz No. 3 with 5,060 points, Sinner 11,000, Zverev 9,630 and Shelton 4,680, and the ATP’s live rankings page showed the same figures. We left out the Race to Turin table because the page carries no date stamp and the table moves with every match. The page makes no claim about his future ranking, a return to No. 1 or Finals qualification.
Match record. The ATP’s report on the October 1 opener in Tokyo puts Alcaraz at 28-4 on its win/loss index, and a season page on Wikipedia showed 27-4 before Tokyo, which is consistent. The 29-4 figure after Saturday’s win is our own addition, not a number read from a source. The four losses (Medvedev, Korda, Sinner, Shelton) match the four defeats in event coverage. Laver Cup matches are excluded.
Titles and results. The Australian Open final score (2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5, February 1) and the Doha final (6-2, 6-1, 50 minutes) agree between a Wikipedia season page and news coverage listings, and several outlets’ headlines confirm the seventh major and the completed career Grand Slam. One automated summary of the round-by-round Australian Open path was garbled and is not used. For Indian Wells, Miami and Monte-Carlo we give rounds and opponents only, confirmed by headlines from several outlets, rather than scores. The Rotterdam withdrawal and the exhaustion reason come from the tournament’s own announcement and ATP coverage.
Injury wording. Alcaraz’s withdrawal from Barcelona on April 15 and the right wrist injury are confirmed by broadcaster and Olympic-movement coverage. The tenosynovitis diagnosis is attributed to Sports Illustrated; we did not find a statement from Alcaraz or his team naming it, and some coverage treated it as unconfirmed, so we attribute it and say nothing about cause, recovery or recurrence. A search snippet saying his wrist is fully healed was not used.
US Open. The score (Shelton winning 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(10-7)), the 4 hours 28 minutes, the 3:33 a.m. ET finish on September 9 and the latest-finish-ever claim agree across the ATP’s match report and several national outlets; the prior record (2:50 a.m., Alcaraz v Sinner, 2022) is in the same coverage. Zverev’s final win over Shelton is confirmed by multiple outlets. Accounts differed on whether Alcaraz dropped a set before the quarterfinal, so we say nothing about his path.
Laver Cup. Team Europe’s 13-5 win, the venue and the September 25-27 dates match the Laver Cup’s own site, Wikipedia and national outlets. Alcaraz’s 6-3, 4-6, [13-11] win over Fritz on September 26, with two match points saved, matches the ATP’s report and other coverage. A claim about his Friday doubles match appeared in only one source and is left out.
Tokyo. The ATP’s tournament page gives September 30 to October 6 (ATP 500). The ATP order of play for Sunday, October 4 lists Alcaraz v Shapovalov second on Colosseum Court, not before 1:00 p.m.; a news site’s schedule gives the semifinals on October 5 and the final on October 6. One site listed earlier dates, which cannot be right because the ATP shows the round of 16 on October 3. The Arnaldi score (7-6, 6-1) and four saved set points agree across the ATP results page, match reports and wire coverage; we omit tiebreak scores and match length because reports differ slightly. The 7-0 Tokyo record is the ATP’s figure. Times converted at 13 hours (Tokyo ahead of US Eastern until November 1).
Schedule. Shanghai (October 7-18), Paris (November 2-8) and the ATP Finals (November 15-22) match the ATP’s tournament pages. The ATP’s Shanghai entry list, published September 10, shows Alcaraz entered. Six Kings Slam dates and field (Alcaraz among six players) come from two outlets’ July 29 announcement coverage. We did not verify his entries for Paris or Turin, and we left out the Davis Cup Finals because Spain’s status could not be confirmed.
Left out on purpose. No head-to-head with Shapovalov (the ATP page returned placeholders), no historical-record claim about back-to-back Tokyo titles (unverified), and no prediction-market or betting pages, which appeared in search listings and were not opened or used.
Still moving at write time. The Alcaraz v Shapovalov quarterfinal had not been played when we finished writing on Saturday, October 3, 2026 (morning in the US Eastern time zone, late evening in Tokyo). The result, his record, his next opponent and the order of play can all change, and the ATP’s next ranking update may change his points.
No betting odds, spreads, or win-probability models appear anywhere on this page.